How central office leaders influence school leaders' decision-making: Unpacking power dynamics in two school-based decision-making systems

LS Wong, CE Coburn, A Kamel - Peabody journal of education, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
While past studies on school district decentralization found that central office leaders can
limit school leaders' decision-making power, the studies did not examine how they do so …

Constraints, values, and information: How leaders in one district justify their positions during instructional decision making

A Huguet, CE Coburn, CC Farrell… - American …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Using over 350 hours of observational data from district-level meetings, we investigate how
leaders support their interpretations of problems and proposed solutions during closed-door …

“What Counts” as Research? Comparing Policy Guidelines to the Evidence Education Leaders Report as Useful

CC Farrell, WR Penuel, K Davidson - AERA Open, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite calls for evidence-based decision making, the field has a limited understanding of
how educational leaders actually engage research. This study draws on a nationally …

[PDF][PDF] Readiness to Implement Evidence-Based Practices in Public Elementary Schools

AR Dopp, M Bongard, A Phillips, MR Kilburn… - 2022 - rand.org
Method All survey procedures were reviewed and approved by the RAND Corporation's
Human Subjects Protection Committee (RAND IRB). We follow the Checklist for Reporting …